I'm trying to watch eyes wide shut, is this the slowest movie ever made? It's like Kubrick said No no no, you are talking way to fast, try to imagine every syllable as they fall flat out of your mouth!

So I went to the cinema today, and this week is the Great Digital Film Fest. They're playing a bunch of movies from some years ago yada yada
Anyway, I saw Akira and Ghost In The Shell, as I'd heard about them before.

Akira was more-or-less what I expected. Cool music, weird story, but at least I was able to follow it for the most part.

Ghost In The Shell was the opposite. Pretty dull and a lot going on in the story. And there was a lot of anime boobies. A lot.

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Oh man, I have never been able to sit through Akira. I don't even really know how the story goes. Ghost in the Shell was one of my favorites though, I hate the mini series that came years after, it doesn't do it justice. I like boobies.

Beautiful Darling, about Candy Darling, of Warhol fame. I thought it was a decent treatment of the subject, apart from Patton Oswalt's completely over-the-top campy Capote voiceover. I really don't have a lot of patience for Warhol or all of the damaged people he cobbled together, probably because I had an art professor who was obsessed with the guy.

Then King of Devil's Island, about the revolt at Bostoy Reformatory. It was okay I guess, if you like bleak Norwegian shit about child molesters.

I was just going to mention The Wind Rises. I had the same reaction but thought it was also pretty powerful. Some complain it depicts the Japanese death machines in more glorious light which I was guilty of doing myself at first until I went back and reflected on the dialog of Caprioni. I would quote it here but I don't want to spoil anything and I'm on my phone which I'm not going to do now, I'm into deep already.... I'm god damn lazy dude.

Anyways, it's a morally difficult film that fabricates some ideas about jiro (designer of the kamikaze planes known as the zero) and delves into his naive nature that blinds him from what the ultimate use of creation leads too.

A noteworthy thing as well is Werner Herzog does a voice over for the English version which is kind of interesting.

that's towards the end where SPOILERS wu ma (he's playing the guardian of hell, of course) gets all giant and starts killing/grabbing all the ghosts.

HERE'S WHAT HE SAYS THROUGHOUT THIS SCENE:
Ghosts, ghosts, ghosts, I'll round you up.
I don't care if you're big, small, guy, girl,
tall, short, fat, skinny,
greedy, perverted, sorrowful, hateful,
stupid, dirty, uncouth,
pale-faced, red-eyed, green-lipped.
You are still a ghost!
I will nab, nab, nab for justice!
I will nab you from the east, west, south, north,
up, down, front, rear,
tightly, slowly, fiercely, lively,
with strength, might, power,
day or night, wind or rain,
I, the Guardian, will nab you all!
No where to hide!
You're [sic] actions on Earth will reflect your salvation.
You cannot defy the will of God!